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1  You have sense, and we all expect you to use it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
2  Elizabeth tried to be diverted by them; but all sense of pleasure was lost in shame.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41
3  My dear Mr. Bennet, you must not expect such girls to have the sense of their father and mother.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
4  Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34
5  She was less handsome than her brother; but there was sense and good humour in her face, and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44
6  The evening conversation, when they were all assembled, had lost much of its animation, and almost all its sense by the absence of Jane and Elizabeth.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
7  When she came to that part of the letter in which her family were mentioned in terms of such mortifying, yet merited reproach, her sense of shame was severe.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36
8  In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34
9  It does seem, and it is most shocking indeed," replied Elizabeth, with tears in her eyes, "that a sister's sense of decency and virtue in such a point should admit of doubt.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47
10  Anxiety on Jane's behalf was another prevailing concern; and Mr. Darcy's explanation, by restoring Bingley to all her former good opinion, heightened the sense of what Jane had lost.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37
11  She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36
12  I know not, Miss Elizabeth," said he, "whether Mrs. Collins has yet expressed her sense of your kindness in coming to us; but I am very certain you will not leave the house without receiving her thanks for it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 38
13  With amazement did she first understand that he believed any apology to be in his power; and steadfastly was she persuaded, that he could have no explanation to give, which a just sense of shame would not conceal.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 36
14  The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
15  We are not on friendly terms, and it always gives me pain to meet him, but I have no reason for avoiding him but what I might proclaim before all the world, a sense of very great ill-usage, and most painful regrets at his being what he is.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
16  As for Elizabeth herself, this invitation was so far from exciting in her the same feelings as in her mother and Lydia, that she considered it as the death warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter; and detestable as such a step must make her were it known, she could not help secretly advising her father not to let her go.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 41
17  But amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations, and your displeasure at this representation of them, let it give you consolation to consider that, to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid any share of the like censure, is praise no less generally bestowed on you and your elder sister, than it is honourable to the sense and disposition of both.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35
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